Brollies steal show at Allora

Megan Masters
Reporter
Megan joined APN in 2009 after getting a start as a Rural Press cadet reporter at the Wellington Times in central western New South Wales. She started at The Chronicle first as Saturday reporter, then as weekly staff reporter before taking the reins of the local community paper, Toowoomba Life.

IT WAS shocking weather in Allora yesterday, but that didn't stop hundreds of people travelling across the region to attend the Allora Community Auction.

Anyone who has never attended the annual auction would have been surprised to see the incredible range of goods on sale.

If you had been looking for an old payphone to put in a two-storey cubby house so you could call about picking up the vintage valve grinder you were looking at buying, Allora was certainly the place to be.

Vendor Denise Buckby travelled from Brisbane to sell her wares and said she was surprised people were so keen with the bad weather.

She was pretty thrilled to sell a Bundy Bear serving tray statue for $200, which the buyer was apparently pleased with as well.

Buyer Michelle Andrews was satisfied to walk out with a vintage cabinet, but was "pipped at the post" on a number of other items she was after.